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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My Friend and I fished with Randy Pringle and had a great trip. Randy was teaching us on how to fish tidal movement. We had a great day with about 6 fish in the 4-1/2 to 5-1/2 lb range and a dozen in the 3-lb range. Of course we caught a few dinks. But the best of all was my 10-lb 5-oz bass I nailed at 10:00 AM. Our best five would top 30-lbs....WOW! Thanks Randy.
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: Hire Randy for a trip and let him show you the secrets.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 77.7

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Great Day Fished from Mildred South, Frogs and spooks all day. The big fish went 8 pounds on a spook. Clients caught fish on Revenge Spinnerbaits and Dominators.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Outside weedlines with spooks do the trick, shaded weed pockets with current for frog fish! Hint Modify your own frog!

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HOT HOT HOT! The past two days the heat sucks. SPent more time swimming than fishing. Frog bite in little franks on high tide is off the hook right now. Landed close to a dozen fish. Nothing big. Missed at least twenty fish. All other fish were on senkos. My partner caught a five plus in fishermans cut on buzzbait early. Over all had a great day. Can't wait to see the results in the Snag Proof tournament coming up!
    City: Boraga

    Tips: Frogs are kicking butt. If its hot with no wind throw frogs. Frog bite sure was on today.

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Overall had a great day. keeps getting hotter and hotter.Suppost to getting a little cooling trend. Frog bite is crazy right now. I cant believe how good the cranking bite was today. Bluegill speedtraps are the ticket. low tide outside weed edge. I ripped them. One quarter mile stretch had close to 17lbs for five just on cranks
    City: Boraga

    Tips: Cranks and frogs are hot. At least for today. WOrth trying out. Not my normal pattern but it will work. Need to key in on some solid frog spots for the snag proof tourney

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    Water Temp: 71-75 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished bishop slough with jim ryan at 5:30am with frogs, buzz and spinner baits, no fish. cut over to white with frogs, speed traps and buzz baits, no fish. at 11:am we were at little potato near h & h marina and found 7 largies with a purple/black jig with a yamamoto grub in purple along the rock banks behind the weeds. no curent at all to find in the delta. used senkos in watermellon/black flake, missed six or more in white slough from 2-4pm, used frogs also no fish. when does this good frog bite start. its hard to a partern tide movement.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: work rocky banks with jigs, white frogs and senkos behind weeds, sometime the space is only 5-10 ft on low tides like today.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Early AM 10 1-2lbs- Green Yamamoto Senkos seemed to be the diet of the morning for 10 big mouths- and 15 or misses- need to sharpen the hooks
    City: Stockton

    Tips: No Top water working all under the tules in front of the weed lines. Green and Black Senkos

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First off a big thanks to Randy Pringle. I have been off water for a couple of weeks, so I called Randy and aksed if he was available for guide trip. Well he was not but he gave me some advice on where,when and how.

    Thats what it took. Got a late start (0800hrs) but had a limit of good fish by 0830 and just slayed the fish all day. Caught a bunch including two over 5lbs on top water, fishing in the middle delta.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This is a day to remember we caught over 125 fish today yes 125 my best trip ever. Two person guide trip Don form Oakley and his brother Mike form NY. We started in Franks with top water Luhr Jensen PJ Pop shad and cartreuse colors along with the speed trap green craw and crystal craw and later switching to bleeding shad. We then hopped around some rock and weed spots switching between the speed trap and a green pumpkin helix we picked up fish on most every spot. Then we went to mandeville and got about 10 and ended up at lunch with 40 fish, wow what a great day but it usually slows after lunch. After lunch form 12:00 to 3:00 we landed 85 fish. We were fishing around Quinmby / Holland area and found some clear water on the low tide and we could see fish every where, I mean tons of fish. using the speed trap we could only catch fish about every 5 casts. I then rigged up a drop shot and caught a fish on every cast. I then gave the drop shot to the client and he caught fish on most every cast for 2 hours we had several triples two of us using speed tran and one with the drop shot. What was really cool was you could see the fish and toss the the drop shot to um and they would bite. Sight fishing in August in th Delta go figure.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Most every fish was caught on a spinning rod with 8lb Sufix ProMix and we never broke off one.
    We drop shotted a lot of fish usuing the broken green pumpkin Helixes left on the deck. I'm sure some will not believe if your one of those too bad you wern't there!

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my nephew and brother-in-law out for their first Bass fishing excursion...Started early with topwater with one blow-up...Switched to brown/purple jig and drop shot combination and began catching solid numbers of 1-2.5lb fish...At 11:00 moved from northeast part of delta to central and started throwing white norman crank and white yamamoto grub on a darthead and caught fish at least every third cast until the tide started to go slack at 1:00 PM. Caught well over 60 fish up to 3.5lbs. Needless to say my nephew and brother-in-law enjoyed the day so much they are considering coming back for additional action before school starts in September.
    City: brentwood

    Tips: Depth, Current, and fast presentation were the ticket. Caught quality fish on rock, weeds, and tulles...What mattered was the moving water and depth...Surprised the topwater bite didn't happen for us, but missed the tide change just enough in the topwater area to turn the bite against us...Fall weather pattern is beginning to appear which for me means WHITE baits are tied on to most of my rods. Crank, jigs, grubs, and drop shot consistently produced.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 5 person guide trip , double with Randy Pringle we both started in Victoria. Super windy! Everybody using spinning rods. High incomming tide a great time for speed traps 1/8oz(my favorite bait) Tossing a green craw and crystal craw we caught 25 fish before noon along with one over 3 and several 2lbers all down south fishing rocks and weeds. Then after lunch the tide was pretty low so we went looking for deeper rock banks and points to throw the speed trap just hopped around down south and caught another 15 or so fish. I did fish a little during the day using the assassinator souther shad spinner bait and I caught about 12 most small keepers to 2 lbs about about 42 fish for the day and 2 fish over 3lbs
    City: Concord

    Tips: Casting skill is very important the guy in the back was making good casts not great but good he landed 20 bass and the guy up frong was not as accurate and he caught 10.

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today sunday around sherman island good outgoing tide picked up some stripers too 8.0lbs on rattle traps started to fish for largemouth and it did seem slow too me I got 3 all on plastics one went almost 4.0lbs fun day good to be back out fishing fish on
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: shad are there so I tried to fish shad type baits it worked

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Orwood resort, got there on Friday the 30th late in the evening and started fishing all the way through saturday morning. My go to lure was a white and gold clacker blade spinner. Caught a three pounder within the first few minutes of casting. All fish were no more than fifteen feet from the shore. Landed about twelve largies, all around the 2-3# range had one about 5#. All fish came on spinners and top-water chuggers. Perfect fishing, no wind and the water looked like glass! No takers on the tourney frogs, tried green, black and brown bottoms - not even a blow-up.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Spinners and traps, anything that can resemble a shad should produce. Didnt try any plastics, having too much fun with my spinner!

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    Water Temp: Mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Beautiful day on the Delta yesterday... clear skies, calm winds (until 3pm), calm water... there was even a layer of tule fog on clinging to the surface of the water in the AM. The tides were big today, and when we arrived at the launch facility, the water was almost brimming the levee walls - there was maybe 3 or 4 feet to spare... the water was VERY high.

    Our biggest fish today went maybe 10 or 11 .....


    inches :P


    Definitely a tough day on the water for us. Didn't help that I forgot my map at home and couldn't really hit the spots I had intended for fear of getting lost. We hit some tried and true spots and got nothing but dinks.

    Drop shotted Senkos, frogs, poppers, spinnerbaits, rattle traps, Senkos, Yamamoto Kreature Bait, Reaction Innovations Trixie Shad... were among the baits we threw yesterday.

    It's a full moon weekend, so maybe that had an affect.

    Trying again next week.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: don't forget your map!!!

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    Water Temp: 73-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: jim ryan and i started on the white slough at 6am, with buzz and spook baits around tule islands and rocky points. had five blow ups and three fish, all 2 lbs. later at 8am a speed trap was working and for most of the day. found more bass later with senkos on steep rocky banks. we used the out going tieds to find moving water on the downside of tule islands. more bass with a red black jigs on eddies with moving water. later we used a frog in the weed mats, no fish.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: find moving waters, work hard, have fun, catch fish. crank, worm and jigs all day. charge trolling motor batteries up for a good long day on the water.

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Two person guide trip with learing how to fish outgoing and low tides and an upcoming tournament. Looking for quality fish we started with top water poppers and all chartreuse persuader buzz bait and persuader assassinator souther shad spinner bait. 1st fish was 4.5lbs and the next was alittle over 4lbs on the buzz bait then a few smaller ones 1-1.5 fishing weed flats with the high outgoing tide as we were looking for better fish we targered islands with weed flats covered with water and then as the water went out we targeted the edges and when the tide got really low we fished the real deep edges with the boat in 15 ft or more of water and working the bait form the edge to about 10 ft. Using these methods we landed 5 quality fish form 3 to 4.5lbs about 20lbs for the day. We had about 40 fish for the day and 25 or so keepers
    City: Con

    Tips: All the quality fish came on the Persuader Buzz bait or the Doc Waters Tube

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: One person guide trip with Joe. Working on flippin and pitchin technique. Woring the outgoing tide around Franks, Quimby, Mandeville and Holland. We targeted islands and weed edges and after a little trial and error we ended up using the New Doc Waters tube. Was a great bait if you think tubes are only for spring your mistaken. From 6:00 to about noon we landed about 30 bass to 3.5lbs some small one but most were quality fish 1.5-2.5 lbs and about 14lbs for 5. After lunch the flip bite slowed down and we went to cranking the speed trap and caught another 15 or so most all small.
    City: Concord

    Tips: The better fish came form 5-10ft deep on water melon red and motor oil Doc waters tubes

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished White Slough in the Delta today slow bite only caught four fish to 7 lbs. & pounder came on a double wide sweet beaver teas craw color. My friend did not believe me when I told him to flip really tight to the bank so I had to show him how to do it. Another fish came on a frog. Water temp 78.5 mild wind and sunny.
    Fire Jon
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: Still learning the Delta

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Sounds like Chris likes to speed around the lake.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had an absolute blast on Tuesday fishing with Julian and Damien from Kansas. Damien's goal was ta git a giant Delta frog fish. I explained with the cool nights, our windo would be in the afternoon and we would just putz around fishing topwater early, then some dropshotting, then some pitching and flippen and around 2:00pm we'd begin froggin when it got hot and the tide was moving up. This worked well as we caught 8 topwater fish on Spooks, poppers and Trixie shads fished around tulle islands in the first 1.5 hours of the day. Biggest was a 3.5 on the spook. We then went off to dropshot and just had an absolute ball catching a large numer of fish, over 50 fish in 5 hours up to three pounds. Many of these were smaller fish, but we had easily 20 keepers. The next couple of hours we spent pitching and flippen Beavers and the new Yamamoto Creature to weed clumps on steeper rock walls. Not near as many bites, but much better quality fish as we put 9 fish in the boat from 2.5 to 4.5 pounds. At 2:00pm we began frogging and had 19 blow ups, and boated 7 of these, with the biggest being Damien's personal best of 5.8 pounds. I had two absolute behemouth bass just lumber up and grab my frog right in front of us, each time before I could set, these fished turned, loaded my rod and the braided line snapped like powder. Geeze, I just bought those "perfect" frogs! ARGH! Awesome day fishing and catching on the River!
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Don't get too hung up using one technique. Early morning topwater bite is there, but must fish big buly baits real slow. Dropshot the outside weed edges on the falling tide, large numbers of fish can be found near openings with current flow, that have big grass beds near by. Pitch and flip bulky creature baits to grass clumps on rocky levee banks, 5-7' depth is the best zone. In the afternoon, find wind protected banks wit calm water, tulles with a trough and close weedline, slow twitch a frog till the sun goes down.

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Franks as the tide bottomed out and into the first few hours of incoming. Lots of fish on buzzbaits (both wht and blk got an equal share), mostly little guys w/a few 2+ lb fish in the mix. Had two big bites, one I'll never know for sure but guessed about 6-7lbs. We made the classic mistake of crossing over each others lines and it hurt, big time. As I was trying to horse the beast out, my girlfriend, who's line was over me hooks up too. First time a double hook-up ever bummed me out. Oh well, I made up for it a few minutes later with a 9lb 12oz toad and this one stayed around long enough for a few pictures. Also got to see a 20+ lb striper blast what looked like a 2lb Sac pike right along side the boat, very cool..
    City: TRACY

    Tips: Little fish were everywhere we went, both big bites came from tule points just outside the current.